This Year in Matrix

Post by Jnr » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

foxfluff wrote: post #71

Jnr wrote: post #69

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Tried Matrix (and Synapse) the 3rd time a couple of months ago and gave up after a few days. Joining any larger federated room took days or did not complete at all. And then the messages were also delayed for quite a while. That must be the stupidest design I have seen. If it was not so messed up, Matrix probably would have become huge by now. I agree with others in comments, devs should have probably improved the fe…

I kind of disagree about the language. Not because I wouldn't want an implementation in a fast language, but because I think a well designed chat system must be performant even if your language is an order of magnitude (or two) slower than it has to be. If you need to start throwing brute force at it, something's up with the design. Get the design right first and demonstrate it is right by showing that even a slow sy…

Post by onefootincode » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

chagaif wrote: post #90

onefootincode wrote: post #8

This was truly a great year for matrix. Thanks to the whole team for making a dream about decentralized www come true! But I have a great pain with that bug: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/469 Everytime I’m fighting with myself to not be sarcastic when speaking about this issue, but I want to say I have hard time believing that Element could we a main communication platform for anyone without this be…

Is there any other chat app that does this? Or want other app? Would be interested to see a PoC and experience how this feels.

Post by netflixandkill » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

Arathorn wrote: post #58

twicetwice wrote: post #55

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I want to voice strong agreement with kevincox. I use an encrypted Matrix room daily and had no idea that reactions, relations (does that mean that edits are in cleartext??), etc are completely unencrypted. I've read a little bit of the spec (though clearly not very much), I've written a bot, I've patched the Element desktop client, I've even been working with a JSON export of my message history and didn't notice—per…

Is it really that surprising that the act of reacting to a message with an emoji isn't E2EE, given the server needs to count the number of reactions? One could encrypt the emoji itself, but it doesn't seem like a massively sensitive datapoint in its own right. (That said, we will encrypt them eventually, but it's just not very high priority given the fact it doesn't practically feel very high impact, relative to all…

Post by gefhfff » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

ncmncm wrote: post #87

I have been through two unsatisfactory home servers (librem and privacytools) and am trying to decide what to do next, maybe even self-host. In the meantime, Signal :--P Whatever I step to, I will need to get my extended family onto it, and that is a big enough hassle I don't want to repeat another move.. I saw that, E2E notwithstanding, your home server has plaintext access to all traffic, which makes me leery of us…

Post by jakecopp » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 12:09 AM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #95

jimmygrapes wrote: post #77

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A migration guide would be much appreciated. I'd also like them to name homeserver.yaml in the Synapse Debian package to something akin to homeserver.example.yaml so that updates don't make me have to diff changes to figure out what I need to add (since accepting the package version overwriting my homeserver url is unacceptable). But that's neither here nor there.

I asked about migration guide in the chat a couple weeks ago. Found 2-3 on random internet sites that made it sound too easy - so I was expecting some gotchas to be mentioned, but got crickets. I will be trying to migrate to a new server at different host/data center in about a week - hope it's as simple as the base guides I bookmarked make it sound. Definitely would love an official guide and some kind of check thin…